romney stood on the stage and said, gosh, gee. >> but the fact that he was asked the question at all. >> right. >> they can not to say anything. >> and there are cases where candidates can come out against ads super pacs made on their behalf. i agree with you. there is a burden for candidates to publicly disavow things that are faults -- that our faults said in their support. i do agree with that. >> not to go on a tangent, but people always worry about campaigns getting more negative. but i always like to cite the add about jefferson said he was up perfidious character with neither the strength of a man nor the gentleness of a woman. this is not to say that it would be nice if our campaigns were not nicer. but this has always been part of the political landscape and our democracy. >> absolutely true. the partisans who bought those newspapers were buying either the republican or the federalist paper -- >> it might not have been at the paper. >> that is correct. they knew it was a party or partisan in one way or the other. >the difference today is it is a paper you can read or choose,